Grenville M. Dodge

Grenville Mellen Dodge (12 April 1831-3 January 1916) was a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War and a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IO 5) from 4 March 1867 to 3 March 1869, succeeding John A. Kasson and preceding Francis W. Palmer.

Biography
Grenville Mellen Dodge was born in Danvers, Massachusetts in 1831, and he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1851 and became a railroad surveyor and a member of the city council in 1860. Dodge joined the Union Army at the start of the American Civil War, and he became colonel of the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was wounded in the side and hand while leading a brigade at the Battle of Pea Ridge in 1862, and he served as Ulysses S. Grant's chief of intelligence during the Siege of Vicksburg. Dodge aggressively recruited African-American soldiers, and he was promoted to Major-General in June 1864 and commanded the XVI Corps during the Atlanta Campaign, personally leading Thomas William Sweeny's division into the Battle of Atlanta. Dodge continued to lead the corps at the Battle of Ezra Church, and he was shot in the head by a Confederate sharpshooter during the siege of Atlanta. In 1865, he ordered the Powder River Expedition against the raiding Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native Americans, in which Patrick Edward Connor defeated the natives. Dodge went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1867 to 1869, lobbying on behalf of Union Pacific and supporting internal improvements to the American West. He later investigated the conduct of the army during the Spanish-American War, and he died in 1916.